Pursuant to Assembly Bill (AB) 1466 and California Government Code Section 12956.3, the Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder’s Office has developed the following Restrictive Covenant Program Implementation Plan.
Our office has approximately 23 million documents in the official records. The initial process will be the identification of documents containing unlawfully restrictive language contained in our records. This will be accomplished by utilizing existing redaction and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to scan records to identify potential restrictive language. Identified records will be routed through the process detailed below, and when appropriate, a redacted version will be recorded. Our goal is to complete the identification and review of existing documents containing unlawfully restrictive language, and the recording of the corresponding Restrictive Covenant Modification documents with the appropriate redactions, by the end of December 2027.
The Restrictive Covenant Modification Program will provide the following:
The newly recorded Restrictive Covenant Modification documents will be tracked and available for review in our Official Records Index. The recorded document will be identified in the index by the title “Restrictive Covenant Modification”. The proposed redacted Restrictive Covenant Modification documents that were not approved by County Counsel will be tracked in a CCR spreadsheet and will be made available upon request.
The Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder’s Restrictive Covenant Program Implementation Plan is available in paper form in any of our offices.